Word: retreatant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dealing with the story of an American woman who predominates a roll in the hay with Lord Howe so that Washington's troops may receive support and retreat, Lewis Meltzer's play meanders through two dull acts, rears its head for a final gasp in the third, and then dies a miserable death...
...technique in several generations." In connection with Caltech's 200-inch telescope, which is expected to start action two or three years hence, the image-slicer may help clear up the mystery of the Expanding Universe. Dr. Hubble, who collected most of the evidence for expansion (high-velocity retreat of the distant nebulae), now believes that after traveling long distances something in the nature of light may cause merely an appearance of expansion, that the universe may well be actually static. Others- notably Harvard's Shapley and England's Eddington-disagree with...
...Forced to Retreat...
...have been forced to retreat, but we have done it in good order," Deutsch said...
...full swing last week, the 1938 Netherlands war games were, as usual, based on the problem "An orderly retreat from the German frontier and the taking up of positions on a new 'waterline' "-a strip of country that can be submerged within a few hours by opening strategic floodgates...